The American Locomotive, Jupiter

This project is a 1/20th scale Jupiter. I built the model after visiting the Golden Spike museum in Promontory, Utah and spending a day crawling over the locomotive and taking many digital pictures while it was being readied for its tourist season. I also obtained all 798 blueprints of the locomotive as it was built by O’Connor Engineering. Wood used includes: claro walnut, curly and quilted maple, curly sycamore, bubinga, poplar and lacewood. It was primarily a lathe project with about 70% being turned. I am currently working on the Tender.

I obtained the blueprints on CD while visiting the California State Railroad Museum in Sacramento 3 years ago.The best blueprints I’ve found for trucks is from Toys and Joys out of Lynden, Washington. Their truck plans, however, is for a Kenworth.